Addressing postal service无毛视频檚 deliberate ways
A leaked U.S. Supreme Court decision, not yet final, that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling recognizing abortion rights for women, will continue to dominate the nation无毛视频檚 attention for months, if not years.
Within hours after the decision was leaked, certainty already was cemented in the eyes of millions of Americans, men as well as women, that the ruling could have a seismic impact on this year无毛视频檚 mid-term elections and the 2024 presidential balloting 无毛视频� as well as politics in general perhaps for generations.
What is very important at this time, though, and which has not been emphasized enough, is that the opinion document in question carries the words 无毛视频渇irst draft,无毛视频� implying that there could be revisions and a number of other drafts before the 无毛视频渇inal draft无毛视频� is released as an official high-court ruling, for better or worse.
Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed quickly that, while genuine, the current draft was far from final.
As currently written, the draft would again permit states to outlaw abortion 无毛视频� something that they have not been allowed to do since Roe v. Wade.
But while forces on both sides of that issue remain mobilized, it is imperative that Americans also remain 无毛视频減lugged into无毛视频� other issues and developments of importance that might affect their lives to varying degrees. We will focus on one of those issues in this editorial 无毛视频� the intentional slowing of the U.S. Postal Service.
The two issues are not related directly but are connected nonetheless by the fact that, in the end, both will have had much anger and many protestations directed their way.
On the mail front, the U.S. Postal Service announced on April 18 that it would slow delivery times for nearly a third of all first-class packages as part of its efforts to lower costs and reduce its reliance on air transportation.
According to the Postal Service, the move will add up to one or two days for some packages traveling long distances 无毛视频� not welcome news to those postal customers who long have been critical about 无毛视频渟nail mail.无毛视频�
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy contends that the longer delivery times are part of a plan to reduce more than $160 billion in projected losses over the next decade.
But chances are that his savings will not reach what he is anticipating through the use of more trains and trucks to transport parcels instead of relying on an air network that he labels more costly and hindered by reliability issues.
The 无毛视频渏ury无毛视频� 无毛视频� meaning postal customers 无毛视频� will not need a year to return a 无毛视频渧erdict无毛视频� on the correctness of DeJoy无毛视频檚 judgment. If customers turn to United Parcel Service or Federal Express 无毛视频� or whatever other service 无毛视频� to get their packages to their destinations more quickly, it will be the package carriers无毛视频� financial gain and USPS无毛视频� revenue loss.
How long that situation might be sustainable for USPS is anyone无毛视频檚 guess, but it should be an important point of contemplation.
As many businesses and services already can attest, once customers 无毛视频渟tray,无毛视频� it sometimes is difficult to get them to return.
News media are chronicling the protests underway outside the Supreme Court building and in cities across the country. Meanwhile, there likely will be fewer, if any, actual postal protests, but customers will deliver their messages nonetheless 无毛视频� by way of less reliance on the post office.
Eventually on both fronts, clear, unmistakable messages will be available for everyone to see.